the future. We can easily connect objects and behaviors to our own lives. For example the seashells‚ “And in her ears the little Seashells‚ the thimble radios tamped tight‚ and an electronic ocean of sound‚ of music and talk and music and talk coming in‚ coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind…”‚ “There had been no night in the last two years that Mildred had not swum that sea…” (pg. 76). The seashells are like earbuds‚ forever attached‚ they can be brought pretty much everywhere: shopping‚
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“knowledge” of the people who use it. Montag discovers this when he observes Mildred using “the little Seashells‚ the thimble radios tamped tight‚ and an electronic ocean of sound . . . coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind” (Bradbury 10). What Mildred listens to is not knowledgeable information‚ but merely a bombardment of sound and useless facts used to asphyxiate her mind. The Seashell radios force information on the listener to block out thought and short-circuit the listener’s creative
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In Fahrenheit 451‚ author‚ Bradbury‚ uses a number of paradoxes to mock and exaggerate aspects of real society. In the novel‚ the author creates a despotic government where the protagonist Montag‚ acknowledges that there is something missing in this society and he feels empty. Montag becomes valiant and takes an adventure to find out what is missing. Bradbury’s main focus in this novel is based on technology. He believes it can have negative impact on our lives. Throughout the novel‚ Bradbury uses
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(SIP-B) People in this society have used technology that they have become extremely unsociable and unable to talk to. (STEWE-1) Mildred can read lips and doesn’t have to listen because she always has her seashells in.”She was an expert at lip-reading from ten years of apprenticeship at Seashell ear-thimbles.”(Bradbury 16) To the people in this society the act of talking itself is just absurd. "’Oh‚ just my mother and father and uncle sitting around‚ talking’...’But what do you talk about?’"(Bradbury
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Bonsai When love is great‚ when love is profound‚ it becomes more difficult to control. And in the hands of people who are unable to control it‚ love overwhelms the person. This is the destructive nature of love which is why the award-winning poet Edith Tiempo‚ in her poem Bonsai‚ scaled down love into a “cupped hand size.” The poem is an example of a work that is objective-correlative wherein the ideas depicted are abstract. In this work of literature‚ love is the abstract idea. In the first
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she has seashells in her ears listening to life outside her. “ Wasn’t there an old joke about about the wife who talked so much on the telephone that her desperate husband ran out… telephoned her to ask what was for dinner? Well then why didn’t he buy himself an audio seashell broadcasting station and talk to his wife late at night‚ murmur‚ whisper‚ shout‚ scream‚ yell(Bradbury‚39).” Montag begins to think of how he would conversate with his wife when all she does is listen to her seashells and not
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As the main protagonist of the book‚ Montag portrays a dynamic character‚ whereas his perception of society around him changes throughout the book. Not only did he question their actions‚ but also his own happiness. This showed that he was‚ in fact‚ more intelligent than the others. This is significant because society is administered by a single lie that happiness should only exist. Clarisse is open minded because she thinks distinctively from society. She does not believe in violence that of which
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pre-cog. Fahrenheit 451 and Minority Report are both set in the future so they have similar technology. In both stories the technology wasn’t perfect. In Fahrenheit 451 there was the mechanical hound‚ parlour walls and ear seashells. The parlor walls and the ear seashells are flawed because they were an alternate reality to the people in this book. They didn’t care about anything that was happening unless they stated it. The new technology in Minority report was the pre-cogs. The flaws of the
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Kayaking‚ canoeing‚ water skiing‚ scuba diving‚ snorkeling‚ rock climbing‚ fishing‚ tennis‚ and boating. * The sequence will last for ten seconds. Conclusion * The last image will be the one picture above with the seashell. Since most people picture seashells with
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Alienation in Fahrenheit 451 We sit on the subways and we ride on the busses‚ we drown the outside world with our headphones and our television sets‚ and we walk on the sidewalks brushing past one another just enough to avoid physical contact so that we can continue on our "merry" way towards our next destination. As a society‚ we beeline our way through life‚ weaving between moments of rendezvous and accidental concurrence‚ and we surround ourselves with instruments of interference in an attempt
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